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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015

Filed:

May. 11, 2009
Applicants:

John Alson Hicks, Iii, Roswell, GA (US);

Randy Zimler, Gainesville, GA (US);

Inventors:

John Alson Hicks, III, Roswell, GA (US);

Randy Zimler, Gainesville, GA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/2823 (2013.01); H04L 12/2809 (2013.01); H04L 12/2827 (2013.01); H04L 2012/2843 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 67/36 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to determine a common user interface to be presented by a group of media devices of a premises where the group of media devices are capable of receiving media content from the server over a power line of the premises and are capable of presenting the media content, detect user interaction with the common user interface from different media devices of the group of media devices, and transmit display signals to the group of media devices for displaying the user interaction on the common user interface, where the display signals differentiate the different media devices that received the user interaction. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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